Re: PR's not being picked up (Was Re: becoming a port committor)

2010-11-21 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 21 Nov 2010 at 22:01:28 PST Janky Jay, III wrote: Almost anyone who is an only semi-serious port maintainer (meaning they only have a select few number of ports to maintain and are only trying to contribute/participate) knows that maybe this issue is due to the porter's handbook. Speci

Re: PR's not being picked up (Was Re: becoming a port committor)

2010-11-21 Thread Anonymous
"Janky Jay, III" writes: > On 11/21/2010 10:26 PM, Charlie Kester wrote: >> On Sun 21 Nov 2010 at 20:09:23 PST Beech Rintoul wrote: >>> >>> That is correct, although it is possible to use a unified diff >>> with the "-N" flag against a non existent source. The problem is >>> too many contributors

Re: PR's not being picked up (Was Re: becoming a port committor)

2010-11-21 Thread Janky Jay, III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/21/2010 10:26 PM, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Sun 21 Nov 2010 at 20:09:23 PST Beech Rintoul wrote: >> >> That is correct, although it is possible to use a unified diff >> with the "-N" flag against a non existent source. The problem is >> too many

PR's not being picked up (Was Re: becoming a port committor)

2010-11-21 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 21 Nov 2010 at 20:09:23 PST Beech Rintoul wrote: That is correct, although it is possible to use a unified diff with the "-N" flag against a non existent source. The problem is too many contributors send in update pr's in shar format which are a real PITA to deal with from our end. You m

Re: becoming a port committor

2010-11-21 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 21 November 2010 15:12:08 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jonathan wrote: > > On 11/20/2010 11:57 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > >> Contribute approx. 50 pr's with patches that are consistently coded and > >> prove > >> to work (and in the right format) n

Re: Suggestions on getting compiz working?

2010-11-21 Thread perryh
Doug Barton wrote: > So does anyone have compiz working with gnome on FreeBSD? I can't help with that directly, but have a related suggestion: Based on what I've been reading on wine-users, it seems that wine and compiz do not get along well together. When you get compiz working, it might be w

Suggestions on getting compiz working?

2010-11-21 Thread Doug Barton
Any ideas? I've tried the suggestions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/index.html and they don't work for me. Doug Original Message Subject: Suggestions on getting compiz working? Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:21:28 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: h

Re: becoming a port committor

2010-11-21 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jonathan wrote: > On 11/20/2010 11:57 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > >> Contribute approx. 50 pr's with patches that are consistently coded and >> prove >> to work (and in the right format) no shar files please. >> > > Does the Porter's Handbook need to be update

Re: ports/finance/homebank 4.3 no longer work after latest gtk-2.22.1 upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread Ruslan Mahmatkhanov
21.11.2010 23:53, Hanno Krusken пишет: Gtk:ERROR:gtkrecentmanager.c:1942:get_icon_fallback: assertion failed: (retval != NULL) basically the program is starting up, and the shortly comes up on the screen but before the full program is loaded it just cuts out and a core dump is left behind. an

ports/finance/homebank 4.3 no longer work after latest gtk-2.22.1 upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread Hanno Krusken
hi there, running FreeBSD-8.1-releng-p1 after this mornings portupgrade, as described in the ports/UPDATEING file and successfully rebuild all the needed ports, the port "homebank-4.3 stops working. even after rebuilding it with "portupgrade -f homebank" as well I get this error: Gtk:ERROR:gtk

Re: Finding files in packages (MANIFEST)

2010-11-21 Thread Marcin Wisnicki
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:25:13 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote: > Chris Rees wrote: > >>> For PackageKit's "app-install", I wanted to list all ports/packages >>> that had a .desktop file (= an "app"). > >> I may be misunderstanding you here, but you could just: >> >> [ch...@amnesiac]~% echo /usr/

Re: becoming a port committor

2010-11-21 Thread Jonathan
On 11/20/2010 11:57 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: Contribute approx. 50 pr's with patches that are consistently coded and prove to work (and in the right format) no shar files please. Does the Porter's Handbook need to be updated then? It explicitly says to use shar files to send ports in section

Re: multimedia/vlc Compile failure on upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:18:13 + David Southwell wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:17:21 + > > > > David Southwell wrote: > > > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:12:11 + > > > > > > > > David Southwell wrote: > > > > > I posted about this failure some time ago but have had no useful > > > >

Re: freebsd-ports Digest, Vol 391, Issue 10

2010-11-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/21/10 4:00 AM, freebsd-ports-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: deprecated because: has not been developed for 10 years but is this a reason for deprecation if it still works? Julian ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: multimedia/vlc Compile failure on upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread David Southwell
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:17:21 + > > David Southwell wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:12:11 + > > > > > > David Southwell wrote: > > > > I posted about this failure some time ago but have had no useful > > > > response. I jhave also not heard from the maintainer so I thought > > > >

Re: multimedia/vlc Compile failure on upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:17:21 + David Southwell wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:12:11 + > > > > David Southwell wrote: > > > I posted about this failure some time ago but have had no useful > > > response. I jhave also not heard from the maintainer so I thought > > > another posting mi

Re: multimedia/vlc Compile failure on upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread David Southwell
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:12:11 + > > David Southwell wrote: > > I posted about this failure some time ago but have had no useful > > response. I jhave also not heard from the maintainer so I thought > > another posting might be helpful. I understand others have a similar > > problem. > > > >

Re: multimedia/vlc Compile failure on upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:12:11 + David Southwell wrote: > I posted about this failure some time ago but have had no useful response. I > jhave also not heard from the maintainer so I thought another posting might > be > helpful. I understand others have a similar problem. > > Thanks in adva

Re: Finding files in packages (MANIFEST)

2010-11-21 Thread Anders F Björklund
Chris Rees wrote: >> For PackageKit's "app-install", I wanted to list all >> ports/packages that had a .desktop file (= an "app"). > I may be misunderstanding you here, but you could just: > > [ch...@amnesiac]~% echo /usr/ports/*/*/pkg-plist | xargs egrep > '\.desktop$' | sed 's|/usr/ports/[a-zA

multimedia/vlc Compile failure on upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread David Southwell
Hi I posted about this failure some time ago but have had no useful response. I jhave also not heard from the maintainer so I thought another posting might be helpful. I understand others have a similar problem. Thanks in advance for any assistance David gmake[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/

Re: Finding files in packages (MANIFEST)

2010-11-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 November 2010 10:31, Anders F Björklund wrote: > > For PackageKit's "app-install", I wanted to list all > ports/packages that had a .desktop file (= an "app"). > > This ended up in a large number of "false positives", > since there is no list of the contents of each package. > So the brute-

Finding files in packages (MANIFEST)

2010-11-21 Thread Anders F Björklund
For PackageKit's "app-install", I wanted to list all ports/packages that had a .desktop file (= an "app"). This ended up in a large number of "false positives", since there is no list of the contents of each package. So the brute-force method is to download *all* of them. For Slackware, which al

Re: How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports?

2010-11-21 Thread Anders F Björklund
Charlie Kester wrote: > But I expect these two find & greps will detect the majority of filename > conflicts. Unless someone has a better recommendation, I'll settle for > less than perfect. Using a MANIFEST file for packages works, if you have one available. It's simply a file listing of the co

Re: Firefox 3.5, find (Ctrl+F) does not work

2010-11-21 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
On 11/20/10 11:48, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > * Output from 'uname -a'. > > FreeBSD kreutzman.h.inter-sonic.com 7.3-STABLE FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE #0: > Sun May 23 08:53:20 CEST 2010 > p...@kreutzman.h.inter-sonic.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KREUTZMAN i386 > > > * Date/time stamp from www/firefox35/Ma